Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rising prices and falling production have intensified the conflict between millions of the poorest and some of the richest people in the world. Strikes are bubbling all over India. Communist power is rising. The Congress Party is likely to split into right and left groups and the Moslems face a similar division...
...order would be no permanent solution in a country where the average per capita wage is 5? a day and a quarter of the population of Bombay and Calcutta sleep on the streets. But the other horn of the dilemma is unrestrained freedom for communal and class conflict which, in a weak, new state, might disastrously degenerate into chaos. Patel is obviously going to try it his way. The Boss has performed miracles of organization before...
...American prosperity for a Russian audience only if he was assured that the Russian people are not jealous of America, but are contented and happy with their own form of government. Although Barton's attempt to get at the forces which lie behind the present conflict in China draws heavily on Theodore White's book, his article is a great deal more than a book review. He traces the Knomintang from its rise to power in 1927 to the present, showing that the present corruption and reaction of Chiang's party rests historically on equally rotten foundations...
...Here is the answer: under the impact of the most sanguinary and divisive conflict in history, the World Christian Movement not only stood, strained but unshattered; it has gone forward-slowly, painfully, but steadily, surely . . . and in its every aspect. All over the world, the Christian Church has been discovered in unexpected strength and significance. In Europe, the Church has been discovered as the one indomitable champion of justice and truth, defender of the persecuted and oppressed. . . . The quisling press of Norway paid its reluctant tribute when it declared: 'The Christian Front is the most difficult to conquer...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their fears of U.S. intervention, and Welles who counseled restraint in interfering with the internal affairs of small nations. Said Larreta...